Public Events

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Upcoming Public Events

Welcome to the upcoming speaker series listing. Each year, Rotman hosts about 100 public talks by international bestselling authors, top management executives and other influential thought leaders. We hope you'll join us for one of these remarkable events.

Wednesday September 09, 2020

Join us for a 1-hour livestream featuring Cleo Stiller, Journalist and Author in conversation with Nouman Ashraf, Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior; Director of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion; and Teaching Fellow – Institute for Gender & the Economy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto on Modern Manhood: Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man (Tiller Press/Simon & Schuster, Nov. 12, 2019).

Thursday September 10, 2020

Join us for a 1-hour livestream featuring Andrew Marantz, Staff Writer, The New Yorker magazine; Author on his book Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking, Oct. 8, 2019).

Monday September 14, 2020

Join us for a livestream featuring Toronto‘s top restaurateurs and chefs as they discuss topics like plant-based protein, if condos are feeding or eating the restaurant business, Uber/Foodora and the rise of food delivery, fair employment practices; the cult of celebrity chefs and the latest food trends.

Tuesday September 15, 2020

Join us for a 1-hour talk featuring Margaret Heffernan, Author and International Businesswoman on her new book Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, Sept. 9, 2020).

Join us for a 1-hour livestream featuring Rishad Tobaccowala, Chief Growth Officer, Publicis Groupe; Author on his new book Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data (Harper Collins, Jan. 28, 2020).

Wednesday September 16, 2020

Join us for a 1-hour livestream featuring Scott Sonenshein, Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, Bestselling Author of Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less – And Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined and Co-Author (with Marie Kondo) of Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life on his book Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life (by Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein for Little, Brown Spark, Apr. 7, 2020).

Thursday September 17, 2020

Join us for a 1-hour livestream featuring Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School; Bestselling Coauthor of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness; former Administrator, White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (Obama Administration) on Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know (by Cass R. Sunstein for the MIT Press, Sept. 1, 2020).

Monday September 28, 2020

Join us for a 1-hour livestream featuring Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, Cornell University; former Chief Economist & Senior Vice President, World Bank; former Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India; Author on The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics (Princeton University Press, 2018).